BREAKING: Donald Trump halts US funding to WHO for 'covering up' coronavirus with China
. The president announced he was cutting between $400million and $500million of funding to the UN-backed body on Tuesday after accusing it of taking China’s alleged lies about the spread and mortality rate of coronavirus at face value.
‘ failed to investigate credible reports from sources in Wuhan that conflicted government accounts and credible reports of human to human transmission in December.‘From the middle of January it parroted and publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human to human transmission despite reports to the contrary and cost valuable time. The world received all sorts of false information on transmissability and mortality.
But US intelligence officials now believe the country’s communist government told multiple lies about their outbreak, and think the official death toll of 3,400 is way under the true figure of around 40,000 people killed. Trump himself has faced repeated accusations he also blundered by ignoring the potential threat posed by coronavirus for the entire month of February, saying it would ‘wash through’ the US without causing much harm, and failing to take draconian lockdown measures until March.
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